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Small group of students practicing the Reciprocal Teaching strategy while discussing a book
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Reciprocal Teaching: A Reading Comprehension Strategy Built for Struggling Readers

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What Is Reciprocal Teaching? Reciprocal Teaching is a structured way of discussing a text in a small group, where students take turns leading the group through four specific jobs: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. Instead of the teacher asking all the comprehension questions, students learn to ask them of each other and of themselves —

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Teacher and student practicing phonemic awareness through an oral sound-tapping activity
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Phonemic Awareness: The Reading Skill That Starts Before Letters

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What Is Phonemic Awareness? Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and play with the individual sounds in spoken words — no letters, no print, purely by ear. It’s noticing that “cat” is actually three separate sounds (/k/ /a/ /t/), or that “sun” and “sit” start with the same sound. It’s easy to confuse with

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